They’re bringing out Schitt’s Creek yarn and patterns, y’all! 😍 🧶 Can’t wait to knit my own David Rose sweater…
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Just received my stunning kit for @sawdustbear’s game “A Mending.” I’m actually very far from all my dearest friends right now, and if only I could walk through these beautiful woods to visit them! ❤️🌳🧵🪡 https://t.co/4WDnaLcGtj
Both @darkosubotica and @Vel12171 from my team will be speaking at this event today! Still time to register. 😍 https://t.co/U7MudfwwgO
@darkosubotica duckyPad!! 🦆❤️
And they worked great! I remember having passionate debates about that Webmonkey article about how best to nest your tables for optimal performance. Ahh, good times. (Tagging @codepo8 as I’m pretty sure I even have some dodgy team photos of him from those days…) https://t.co/H6FuEiVb23
Excited to (virtually) attend my first @blndevops meetup tonight! First up is Elmar Weber, CTO at @ambossmed, starting his talk on driving culture through infrastructure by remind us how things used to work in the Waterfall days… https://t.co/b5xpvXfnoD
@blndevops @ambossmed Elmar says that @ambossmed’s plan for their development platform got thrown out the window when the team grew 4x as large as expected! So they spent time to plan and define goals, such as allowing a new engineer to deploy a new service within minutes. https://t.co/Im5EFaZb23
@blndevops @ambossmed Lots of good takeaways from this talk, but I especially liked how Elmar made sure to hit “Don’t ever build your own Kubernetes cluster if you can avoid it” multiple times. 😂 https://t.co/OtnI0EeVcK
@der_rehan @Vel12171 That’s really cool Rehan, nice job!! 👏
The advent of the Cloud and virtualisation has enabled the rise of dev and the concept of “shifting left,” says @yishaibeeri from @LinearB_Inc, ultimately leading to code eating the world… @blndevops https://t.co/6HxiGxdr2a
@yishaibeeri @LinearB_Inc @blndevops Useful Dos and Don’ts of shifting left – automate mundane steps; fail early with quick feedback; and don’t rely on metrics you look at once a month to tell you when something goes wrong. https://t.co/yLyJ7K09Ly
RT @nocontextmiller: https://t.co/CPVQfdvQru
@codepo8 Well said…
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Just received my stunning kit for @sawdustbear’s game “A Mending.” I’m actually very far from all my dearest friends right now, and if only I could walk through these beautiful woods to visit them! ❤️🌳🧵🪡
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Just received my stunning kit for @sawdustbear’s game “A Mending.” I’m actually very far from all my dearest friends right now, and if only I could walk through these beautiful woods to visit them! ❤️🌳🧵🪡
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Freshly baked apricot crisp for breakfast al fresco… on a Tuesday?! 😍🍑 @ Theresienhöhe https://t.co/jMFFi7Vo1T
@DgtlNmd It’s Berlitz Level A2.3, but the teacher is slipping in some refresher material for things we’ve told her we need to review. (I was pretty conversational 25 years ago, but a lot of the grammar is very rusty now!)
@mirabeladd Thanks for the recommendation! I’m doing a Berlitz course through work, but will definitely keep it in mind for after. 🙂
@FrankPrechtel @dnsmichi OOHHH, truth be told Würste > Kekse in my house, so I am looking forward to that Frank!!
We had a team caricaturing lesson. I am… not good at this. #growthmindset 🎨🤪 @ Theresienhöhe https://t.co/lJekKa0ZjV
Me, riding through the Munich city center tonight: “Why are there so many police cars around?!” Oh. Apparently France are playing Germany tonight. 😂⚽️ #Euro2020 🇩🇪 GO DEUTSCHLAND!
@dnsmichi Awww, böse Michi! 😂
@dnsmichi We didn’t watch either. Only realised tonight that we’ve never actually tuned the TV to local channels! 😂
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Freshly baked apricot crisp for breakfast al fresco… on a Tuesday?! 😍🍑
We had a team caricaturing lesson. I am… not good at this. #growthmindset 🎨🤪
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A Day on the Chiemsee
After only glimpsing the Chiemsee from a distance on our trip to Salzburg, we knew we needed to head back on a nice day. It’s a large freshwater lake with several islands you can visit, including one with a palace! So when a suitable weather forecast presented itself, we caught the train southeast from Munich towards Prien am Chiemsee…
But not this train, of course. We took a modern train from Munich. This little green steam train is actually the Chiemsee-Bahn, which runs about a mile from the main station in Prien down to the edge of the lake. You could easily walk that distance, but we couldn’t resist getting to ride on heritage-listed choo-choo!
The train lets you out right at the water and then the engine detaches, spins around on a turntable, and hooks up to head back the other direction.
All of the Chiemsee ferries and cruises depart from this landing, and there are restaurants, a Ferris wheel, boat rental, a promenade, a swimming center, and lots of folks just hanging out, enjoying the weather. The view of the lake was really spectacular.
We hopped on a ferry and headed to the Herreninsel (“Men’s island”), the largest one and the one with the palace.
When you get to the island, you end up at a visitor center next to an old Augustinian Monastery. There’s about a 20 minute walk to the Herrenchiemsee Palace, or you can take a horse carriage ride. We went for the walk, strolling through a beautiful shady wood…
We eventually reached a break in the woods and stepped out into a formal garden, straight out of Versailles! 😳
It’s not accidental. It was built by King Ludwig II as the third and last of his famous castles (after Neuschwanstein and Linderhof), and he deliberately modelled it after Versailles. Dude had a fixation with Louis XIV! Several of the fountains are copies of ones at the French palace. (They weren’t running constantly; it seems like they were going every half an hour on the day we were there.)
The only way to see inside the palace is to book a tour, and I was lucky enough to get us on one of the few English versions. It was us and two other couples, and the tour guide took us inside and through all of the completed rooms. Unfortunately photography wasn’t allowed, but you can see some pictures on the Wikipedia page. One thing I found fascinating was that Ludwig had his architects copy Versailles pretty closely, but he also built in secret “modern” technology, like central heating from furnaces under the palace. He also had a trap door under his dining table, which cranked up and down like an elevator so it could magically appear with food on it! The Hall of Mirrors was spectacular, as was the world’s largest Meissen porcelain chandelier. Sadly, Ludwig ran out of money before the palace was finished, and he only spent like ten days there before he mysteriously died at 40. (Nowadays they use the unfinished part to host art exhibitions.)
Leaving the palace, you look across the sunken formal garden all the way to the Chiemsee in the distance!
After a wander back to ferry landing, we caught another boat over to the Fraueninsel (“ladies’ island”).
While the Herreninsel is mainly a tourist destination, the Fraueninsel has a Benedictine convent and a little village of about 300. It’s car-free, so we had a lovely time walking around and checking out all the little houses and shops. I noticed that several of the places had rental details on them, and I can’t imagine a more beautiful place to spend a week just chilling out. We were also delighted to spot some familiar flags. There are Antipodeans living on Fraueninsel! 🇦🇺🇳🇿
We took another small cruise to end the day, but we were getting a bit sunburnt and tired at this point!
To get home, we disembarked at Prien Stock and took the Chiemsee-Bahn back to Prien train station, before catching the regional train back to Munich. Lovely day out on the water!
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Two weeks from tomorrow, I’ll join a panel of amazing women from @awscloud Germany to talk about how you can chart a career in cloud computing. We’d love to have you join us!
(And fun trivia – “Servus” is how you say hello in Bavaria, where I live. 😃)
https://t.co/HPAtLlFmFR https://t.co/tXaJ7Tnpbl
@ASpittel That sucks. Hang in there. 🙁
Hey Aussies! This one’s happening on Wednesday. ❤️ https://t.co/Qr9rn57qNg
@pgarbe I don’t hear many folks in Munich say it for goodbye though. Ciao seems much more common!
When @dnsmichi turns up at the same meetup, you have to eat Dragee Keksi! (Apologies to @FrankPrechtel and the other AWS Nürnberg attendees for not sharing…) 😂🍪 https://t.co/EqNdwW4HDM
@dnsmichi @FrankPrechtel Now I need to learn how to say “I’m ruining my dinner” auf Deutsch. “Ich ruiniere mein Abendessen” ?
Today’s German lesson was about propositions that can take either accusative or dative case, depending on the verb. So I’ve been walking around all day muttering things like “Ich gehe *ins* Bett, aber ich liege *im* Bett.” 🤓
@lynnlangit I literally recited that this morning! It’s been stuck in my head for 25 years. 😂 (Those are the always-dative ones, so they’re easier than these tricky bastards that change depending on movement.)
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…